The NIA found that the IEDs were planted with the intent to cause death or injury, destroy property and threaten the unity, integrity, and sovereignty of India and to spread terror among the people. File | Photo Credit: PTI “The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge sheeted three persons including Myanmar-based banned outfit ULFA (I) chief … Read more
There was a reason why the British invested in a 65-km railway track from Dibrugarh to Margherita in the early 1880s, less than two decades after Asia’s first oil well was drilled at the nearby Digboi town. The track helped transport coal, tea, and timber from Margherita and stations en route to the Brahmaputra River … Read more
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (December 16, 2024) arrested an alleged operative of the banned terrorist outfit, ULFA (I), on the charge of planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Guwahati during the Independence Day celebrations this year. “NIA teams, with the active support of Assam Police, carried out searches at the house of … Read more
Paresh Barua, leader of the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom or ULFA (Independent), has termed the tripartite peace agreement signed with the pro-talks faction of the outfit as “shameful”, asserting that “political settlement is not possible when revolutionaries give up their goals and ideals”. “We are not surprised, concerned or angry … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with members of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) during signing of a peace accord between ULFA and the central and Assam governments, in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The peace pact signed with the pro-talks faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) will pave … Read more
Mani Hazarika with a copy of her memoir. | Photo Credit: Rahul Karmakar Mosquitoes almost succeeded in doing what mortars could not — kill Mani Hazarika during a military operation in December 2003 to flush out extremists of Assam from their hideouts in Bhutan. She regained consciousness in a Bhutanese Army hospital after a bout … Read more